henryhorn
Well-Known Member
CCj has retired to bed as she has to work tomorrow, so it's down to me.
We had a very easy preparation as BB's volunteered to plait and groom, and were away by 8am.
The rain was incessant all the way there and CCj was pretty quiet , Chocolate has never competed on wet ground as far as we know and although Pontipsool always do their best to make the ground good, it's clay and can be very very slippy.
Luckily it started brighten up by the time we arrived and her dressage time of 10.50 gave us plenty of time to get ready. I have to say I did very little, BB's was great, super efficient, and my input was limited to coffee and bacon sandwiches!
At 10. 40 she got on him, and sauntered over to the dressage, trotted just two circles, and went to her arena. he was really good, much more off her leg than last time, and despite a couple of timy resistances in transitions, scored 32.5.
The Sj was fairly soon after this and it rained hard throughout her round. He jumped nicely but just tipped a pole with his back feet putting her score up five faults.
By this time the ground was vile, red clay mud sticking to your feet, slippery and it didn't stop raining....
He set off on the Xc and after a few flying changes en route to the first flew round in fine style.
At the drop being inexperienced he jumped UP first which made it an enormous jump... But he flew through the water and made nothing of any of the fences. This is now his eighth ever attempt at a XC course and he is getting the idea of what he needs to do. He finished on the same penalties and a time of 5.34, the optimim time was 6 .12 I think so the move up to Novice with a faster time looks like it's going to be achievable later this year.
His total put him in 9th place so although that one Sj cost him dearly (he would have been in the first four) he has now been placed in all four of his BE events. Not bad for an old'un! .
we are off to Moreton next weekend weather permitting, the XC course at PP rode very very well, not slippy at all, I think the humans walking about the car parks had the most problems!
We saw quite a few H and H members, but the bad weather kept the horse and us stuck inside the box most of the day.
Big thank you to BB's, who gave me the chance to have a rest today, and was great company...
(I have asked her if she would like to be adopted but she says only if I let her have Chocolate...somehow I think there could be a fight...)
We had a very easy preparation as BB's volunteered to plait and groom, and were away by 8am.
The rain was incessant all the way there and CCj was pretty quiet , Chocolate has never competed on wet ground as far as we know and although Pontipsool always do their best to make the ground good, it's clay and can be very very slippy.
Luckily it started brighten up by the time we arrived and her dressage time of 10.50 gave us plenty of time to get ready. I have to say I did very little, BB's was great, super efficient, and my input was limited to coffee and bacon sandwiches!
At 10. 40 she got on him, and sauntered over to the dressage, trotted just two circles, and went to her arena. he was really good, much more off her leg than last time, and despite a couple of timy resistances in transitions, scored 32.5.
The Sj was fairly soon after this and it rained hard throughout her round. He jumped nicely but just tipped a pole with his back feet putting her score up five faults.
By this time the ground was vile, red clay mud sticking to your feet, slippery and it didn't stop raining....
He set off on the Xc and after a few flying changes en route to the first flew round in fine style.
At the drop being inexperienced he jumped UP first which made it an enormous jump... But he flew through the water and made nothing of any of the fences. This is now his eighth ever attempt at a XC course and he is getting the idea of what he needs to do. He finished on the same penalties and a time of 5.34, the optimim time was 6 .12 I think so the move up to Novice with a faster time looks like it's going to be achievable later this year.
His total put him in 9th place so although that one Sj cost him dearly (he would have been in the first four) he has now been placed in all four of his BE events. Not bad for an old'un! .
we are off to Moreton next weekend weather permitting, the XC course at PP rode very very well, not slippy at all, I think the humans walking about the car parks had the most problems!
We saw quite a few H and H members, but the bad weather kept the horse and us stuck inside the box most of the day.
Big thank you to BB's, who gave me the chance to have a rest today, and was great company...